Koreans hate Japan because the colonial history. Why do the Japanese hate Korea?

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Augusta Hayek
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Why?

There are many many reasons as follows:

CRIMES

(1) High Crime Rates

(2) Kidnapping

(3) Yakuza

(4) Illegal Political Activities

(5) Illegal and Unfair Receipt of Social Welfare

LIES AND FABRICATIONS

(1) Ancient History

i) LIE: Japanese are descendants of Koreans

ii) LIE: Koreans taught Japanese civilization

(2) Middle Ages

iii) LIE: Japanese Emperors are descendants of Koreans

(3) Feudal Period

iv) LIE: Yi Sun-shin (李舜臣) defeated Japan

(4) Pre Modern History

v) LIE: Japan killed Korean Queen Min (閔妃)

vi) LIE: Japan colonized Korea illegally by force

vii) LIE: Japan despoiled Korea

viii) LIE: Japan forced sex slaves to Korean girls during the War

ix) LIE: Japan illegally forced labor during the War

(5) Modern History

x) LIE: Korea modernized by themselves (Japan interfared)

xi) LIE: Japanese assaulted Koreans after Great Kanto Earthquake

(6) What is Korean history?

STEALING OF TECHNOLOGIES AND CULTURES

(1) Technologies

(2) “Traditional” Cultures

(3) Subcultures (anime, K-dramas, K-pops, fashions, plastic faces)

CRIMES

(1) High Crime Rates

Koreans in Japan have the highest crimes by country. For instance, in 2014, the crime rates of Koreans living in Japan and Japanese according to National Police Agency of Japan are as follows:

Koreans:

3,080 (arrests) / 490,190 (persons) = 0.006283

Japanese :

299,654 (arrest) / 127,094,745 (persons) = 0.002357

Other yeas have similar figures.

So, Koreans living in Japan are committing crimes three times more than the Japanese.

(2) Kidnapping

17 Japanese persons were kidnapped by North Korean Government, and some of the kidnapper were studying in thier North Korean schools in Japan, openly teaching anti-Japan education program using Japanese tax payer’s money.

But the government thinks this is a tip of an ice burg. They suspect with a degree of certainty that more than 800 Japanese citizens were likely to have been kidnapped, possibly more.

Both North Koreans and South Koreans disguised as Japanese were involved in the kidnapping.

(3) Yakuza

According to the Japanese Police, 40% of Yakuza today are said to be Korean. This means that, Koreans are 172 times more likely to be Yakuza than Japanese, taking into account their population.

Also Korean Yakuza are notorious and feared for their cruelty and tendency to attack ordinary citizens.

(4) Illegal Political Activities

Koreans are the only foreigners in Japan who want to disguise themselves as Japanese using false Japanese names called “tsuu-mei,” and using these Japanese names they engage in political activities which are banned to foreingers in any countries.

During the administration of Japan Democratic Party (2009 - 2012), Japanese society was shocked by a revelation in the National Diet that there were so may Koreans engaded in illegal political activities using Japanese names.

This year, the Naional Public Security Commission of Japan revealed in the Diet that there are many Koreans illegally engaged in the anti-US army base and independence movement of Okinawa. This angered many Japanese for Koreans illegally sticking their heads into Japan’s critial national security issues.

(5) Illegal and Unfair Receipt of Social Welfare

With the introduction of “My Number,” Japanese equivalent of the US social security number, many Korean were found to be receiving social security illegally. Some were hiding their other proper income, but in many cases, they were receiving money under multiple accounts using different Japanese names.

To begin with, many Koreans did NOT pay premiums when they were younger saying they would return home when they get older. However, they not only stayed in Japan, but they complained and started receiving social welfare without paying premiums. And today they have the highest welfare receipt rate by country.

Many Japanese think that these actions by Koreans are above all the most SHAMEFUL conducts exploiting Japanese people’s goodwill to steal money .

LIES AND FABRICATIONS

These are mainly to do with the Korean history education and propaganda to the world, that have implications on Japan.

This is what Koreans say about themselves. Japanese heard this during the “comfort women issue,” and were literally frightened.

According to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003 (printed version), "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.

Below are some of Korean’s ridiculous claims.

(1) Ancient History

i) CLAIM: Japanese are descendants of Koreans

This couldn’t be further from the truth.

a) Ancient History of Korean Peninsula

There are only about 50 archeological sites of more than 10,000 years ago on the entire Korean Peninsula, and the number drops to zero between 10,000 to 5,000 years ago. This means that people on the Peninsula had extincted because of disaster, war, diseases or bad weather. However, on the Japanese archipelago, there are more than 10,000 archeological sites of more than 10,000 years ago, and the discontinuation as in the Korean Peninsula did not occur.

Then, Japanese Jomon earthenware started appearing at the southern part of the Korean Peninsula from about 5,000 years ago. This is followed by the distinctive Japanese circular‐shaped ancient tombs with rectangular frontage (前方後円墳) which first appeared in Japan in 3rd Century AD, of around 5th Century AD.

From this, it is obvious that it was Japanese who first lived on the Korean Peninsula since 5,000 years ago.

This is in agreement with records in ancient Chinese documents such as the Book of the Later Han (後漢書), or ancient Japanese documents such as the Chronicle of Japan (日本書紀), which state that the southern part of the Korean Peninsula was Japan (倭). It is also in accordance with the Book of Shilla (新羅本紀) in Korea’s oldest chronicle, Samguk Sagi (三国史記), which states that some early Kings of Shilla were Japanese from Japan.

Even though Korea does not want to admit this politically, all documents and archeological evidences agree that the southern part of the Korean Peninsula was a part of Japan.

b) Japanese DNA Haplogroup

There are three main Y-haplogroups in Japan, D, O and C.

D: Roughly 40% of Japanese belong to D, but nearly all of it is D1b which is unique to Japanese only. There is no D in China or Korea except in Tibet. But Tibetans are D1a.

The D has very unique mutation called YAP. But there is one another haplogroup that has YAP, which is the haplogroup E. E only exists in the eastern Africa, West Asia and some parts of Europe. So this could be the Japanese connection with Caucasians.

O: Up to 30% of the Japanese belong to the haplogroup O, but they are O1b2 (O-47z), which almost exclusively occurs in Japan. Koreans are xO-47, and there is none of this in China.

15-20% of Japanese belong to O2. About 70% of the northern Chinese and 35% of Koreans belong to O2, so that this could well be the Japanese connection with Chinese and Koreans.

C: About 5% of the Japanese are C1a1 that only occurs in Japan. Another 5% belong to C2 which also exists in Korea and China. But the origin of C2 is believe to be somewhere in Siberia.

So in total, more than 70% of the Japanese DNA are unique to the Japanese only, and they do not even occur in China or Korea.

ii) CLAIM: Koreans taught Japanese civilization

Although many Koreans claim this, the truth is that there is literally nothing Japan learned from Korea.

For instance, the WORLD’S oldest polished stoneware, earthenware, and lacquer ware are found in Japan. Remainings of rice and rice paddies are older in Japan than in Korea. Also, the Japanese steel making process, Tatara, is not related to Korean method, but it came from the Central/Western Asia.

The people who introduced advanced civil engineering, sericulture and machine weaving to Japan, Hata Clan (秦氏), were from China coming to Japan THROUGH Korea. The same is true for Wani (王仁) who taught Analects of Confucius and Chinese Thousand Character Classic, and Tori Busshi (止利仏師) who taught Buddhism sculptures.

None of them were Korean, and Korean Peninsula was merely a CORRIDOR. In return, Japan paid a huge cost for protecting Baekje against invasions by Gogreyo, Shilla and Tang.

An ancient Chinese official history book, Book of Sui, says that Japan is a great country with full of rare things that both Shilla (Korea) and Baekje (Korea) revere and respect a lot and send delegates to Japan.

There is NOTHING Korean that people of Korea taught Japanese.

(2) Middle Ages

iii) CLAIM: Japanese Emperors are descendants of Koreans

Baekje (百済)

Japanese Emperors Are From Korea?

Emperor Akihito’s words:

On Dec. 18, 2001, the Emperor Akihito told news reporters "I, on my part, feel a certain kinship with Korea, given the fact that it is recorded in the Chronicles of Japan (続日本紀) that the mother of Emperor Kammu (桓武天皇) was of the line of King Muryong (武寧王) of Baekje (百済),” and this caused a great deal of controversy.

This is because Emperor Kammu, reigned Japan from 781 to 806 AD, but King Muryong ruled the Baekje (百済) Kingdom in Korea from 501 to 523 AD.

Are the Japanese Emperors really descendants of Koreans?

Brief Ancient History of Korean Peninsula:

There are only about 50 archeological sites of more than 10,000 years ago on the entire Korean Peninsula, and the number drops to zero between 10,000 to 5,000 years ago. This means that people on the Peninsula had extincted because of disaster, war, diseases or bad weather. However, on the Japanese archipelago, there are more than 10,000 archeological sites of more than 10,000 years ago, and the discontinuation as in the Korean Peninsula did not occur.

Then, Japanese Jomon earthenware started appearing at the southern part of the Korean Peninsula from about 5,000 years ago. This is followed by the distinctive Japanese circular‐shaped ancient tombs with rectangular frontage (前方後円墳) which first appeared in Japan in 3rd Century AD, of around 5th Century AD. There is no remaining of any other culture or ethnic group during this period on the entire Peninsula.

From this, it is obvious that it was Japanese who first lived on the Korean Peninsula since 5,000 years ago.

This is in agreement with records in ancient Chinese documents such as the Book of the Later Han (後漢書), or ancient Japanese documents such as the Chronicle of Japan (日本書紀), which state that the southern part of the Korean Peninsula was Japan (倭). It is also in accordance with the Book of Shilla (新羅本紀) in Korea’s oldest chronicle, Samguk Sagi (三国史記), which states that some early Kings of Shilla were Japanese from Japan.

Even though Korea does not want to admit this politically, all documents and archeological evidences agree that the southern part of the Korean Peninsula was a part of Japan.

Who Was Takano-no-Niigasa (高野新笠) ?:

As the Emperor Akihito said, Emperor Kanmu’s mother, Takano-no-Niigasa whom the Emperor Akihito mentioned, is recorded in the Chronicle of Japan (続日本書紀) as a descendant of King Muryong of Baekje (百済). However, there is no such record in Korean side. Also, other doubts arise from the facts that although her father is known, there is no family tree or any record from her grandfather to King Muryong (武寧王), and that her previous family name (カバネ), Fushito or 史, and her mother's family are too low in rank for a King family.

So nobody really knows for sure who her ancestors were.

That is why the Emperor Akihito said “It is RECORDED that (〜と＊記されている＊ことに、)” instead of decisively stating it.

That is why the Emperor very carefully said "feel a certain kinship 'with Korea’" instead of “with people of Korea."

There are huge differences between them.

There were still many Japanese at the southern part of Korean Peninsula, so even if her ancestors did come from Baekje (百済), she could have been from a family of Japanese, and when she married to Emperor Kanmu’s father, the Imperial Court could have rigged her ancestor.

Or, despite what Koreans want to believe, since Baekje (百済) was serving to Japan as one of their prince, Buyeo Pung (豊璋), was taken as a hostage in Japan, there is a slim chance that she really was a descendant of King Muryong.

Male Lineage of Japanese Emperors:

According to the Chronicle of Japan (日本書紀), compiled in 8th century, the first Japanese Empeor Jinmu (神武天皇) was enthroned in 660 BC. Since then, there existed a total of 125 Emperors, but all of them are of the same male line. Although there were 10 female Emperors (eight female, of which two became Emperor twice), they were of the male line, and were succeeded by Emperors of the same male line.

So, in theory, the present Emperor Akihito, is supposed to have the same Y-chromosome as the first Emperor Jinmu.

Having said that, there is a 200 year gap between the King Muryong of Baekje (百済) and the Emperor Kanmu’s mother, Takano-no-Niigasa, or about 10 generations if we assume 20 years per generation on average. Her mother was a Japanese, so let’s say, we assume her father’s family came to Japan a halfway through to her, then her Korean gene was diluted to (1/2)^5, which is about 3.1%.

But most importantly, this is about her genes OTHER THAN the male Y-chromosome because during reproduction processes, Y-chromosome NEVER gets transferred to female offsprings.

Also, because mitochondoria DNA are descended ONLY from female parents and Takano-no-Niigasa’s mother was from a Japanese family, her mitochondoria-DNA was 100% Japanese.

Hence, in the above case, the Emperor Kanmu’s gene looks like as follows:

1 ) Emperor Kanmu:

Male Gene (Y-chromosome): 100% Japanese (100% same as Emperor Jinmu)

Other genes: 96.9% Japanese, and 3.1% Korean.

Mitochondoria-DNA: 100% Japanese

And, since Emperor Kanmu is 50th Emperor, present Emperor Akihito’s gene (ex-male gene) is (1/2)^79, which is 1.7^-22 %, or 0.00000000000000000000017%. So,

2) Present Emperor Akihito:

Male Gene (Y-chromosome): 100% Japanese (100% same as Emperor Jinmu)

Other genes: almost 100% Japanese, and 0.000000000000000000000017% Korean.

Mitochondoria-DNA: 100% Japanese

I suppose you could say the present Japanese Emperor Akihito has some Korean blood….whatever that means…...

But this is far from Korea’s claims and propaganda that Japanese emperors descended from Koreans.

Silla (新羅)

The Kings of Silla were from three families: Pak (朴), Seok (昔), Kim (金).

However, Korea’s oldest official history book, Samguk Sagi (三国史記), states that the founder of one the king families, Seok (昔), was Talhae of Silla (脫解尼師今), a Japanese from Japan as shown in below:

『三国史記』　新羅本紀　第四代　脱解

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The origins of the other two king family names, Pak (朴) and Kim (金), are not clearly stated, and it is just said that their founder were born out of “eggs."

But it also says that because the egg from which the first king of Silla of Pak (朴) family, Hyeokgeose of Silla (赫居世居西干), was born looked like a gourd (瓠), they named the family name of “박, Pak (朴),” which in the language of Jinhan means a gourd (瓠).

However, because the above mentioned Japanese King, Talhae of Silla (脫解尼師今), was wearing a gourd (瓠) at his hip, he was called Honorable Gourd (瓠). So it is likely that the king family Pak (朴) was also a relative of the Japanese family Seok (昔). This is in accordance with the fact that Talhae of Silla (脫解尼師今) was a senior vassal of Hyeokgeose of Silla (赫居世居西干).

Also, the egg, from which the founder of the last King family, Kim (金), Michu of Silla (味鄒尼師今), was born from was found by the above mentioned Japanese king, Talhae of Shilla (脫解尼師今). So the Kim (金) family is also likely to be related to Japanese.

At least, the first king from Kim (金) family, Michu of Silla (味鄒尼師今), was married to a direct descendant of the Japanese Seok (昔) family, 光明夫人.

So, out of the three King families of Silla, Seok (昔) was definitelyJapanese; Pak (朴) was likely; and 金 (Kim) was highly likely and married to Japanese wife.

(3) Feudal Period

iv) CLAIM: Yi Sun-shin (李舜臣) defeated Japan

Even though Korean wants to include Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) as one of the three Greatest Admirals of the world, Horatio Nelson of the Britain who prevailed in the Battle of Trafalgar, John Paul Jones of the America who defeated the British for its independence, and Heihachiro Togo of Japan who defeated the Russia’s Baltic Fleet, he was not even a supreme commander, nor did he prevail in the battle that Koreans claim to have won.

To start with, throughout their history, Korea was the weakest in the region. Since the time of Yuan Dynasty, Korea had been a tributary state of China for almost one thousand years. They always asked other countries to fight for Korea’s domestic issues like in the Korean War, and this is why they have no true national hero.

Yi Sun-sin was merely a commander of a single fleet out of many Joseon fleets, certainly not the admiral or the commander of the Ming-Joseon combined fleet. Not only he failed to defeat the Japanese navy, he could not prevent them on the sea, handing over the mastery of the sea and allowing them to land on the Korean Peninsula.

In fact, in the first dispatch, Japan conquered Seoul within one month, and Pyeongyang within two months capturing the princes of Joseon as a hostage while there was NO Japanese commander killed except for one who was assassinated during hawking.

Japan at the time was the hay days of samurai and had the largest number of guns in the world with many experienced samurai in communications and modern battle tactics of the day. Korea on the other hand was merely a tribunary state of Ming with NO guns. There is no way Korean could beat Japan by itself.

The only military exploit that Yi Sun-sin had against Japan was when he attacked “a supply fleet” and temporally cut off its supply route. But this is by no means “destroyed" or “defeated." His strategies were more like those of pirates or guerrillas, setting fire on ships at night or attacking from the back of Japanese fleets after agreeing on cease-fire. Coward and so typical of the weak. And in the end, Yi was killed in a revenge battle of attacking Japanese after the cease-fire.

Later, since the military leader of Japan, Hideyoshi, who planned to conquer China through Korea, died of old age in Osaka, Japan agreed on cease-fire and retreated.

It is a blatant lie for Koreans to say that Yi Sun-sin was a great admiral of the world, defeated the Japanese navy, or is the one from whom the world’s other admirals learn from. The truth was that he was not an admiral; his fleet was not a blue water fleet; he allowed Japanese to land on Peninsula; and he was killed by the Japanese.

However, you could say that he had some brain, avoiding front-to-front battle with the Japanese on the sea.

(4) Pre Modern History

v) CLAIM: Japan killed Korean Queen Min (閔妃)

On October 8, 1895, Queen Min, the wife of the 26th King of Joseon Dynasty, Gojong, was assassinated by intruders that barged in the Court. Since witness said that some of the intruders were wearing Japanese clothes, there were speculations as to who was the ringleader.

However, soon after the incident, thorough investigation was carried out by the King Gojong, and the Joseon Court ruled that the puppeteer was Heungseon Daewongun, the father of King Gojong himself. Before the incident, Heungseon Daewongun and Queen Min were locked in a protracted political struggle.

Subsequently, all criminals and their families, excluding Heungseon Daewongun, were arrested and executed. They were all Koreans.

Facts:

1. During the independent trial by the Joseon Dynasty, a Korean general 李周会 confessed that it was him who planned the assassination of Queen Min.

2. Two other Koreas, 朴銑 and 尹錫禹, were found to be involved in the planning of the assassination.

3. King Gojong himself said to the Japanese Governer General of Korea, Yoshimichi Hasegawa, that some of his subects were the criminals.

4. King Gojong himself ordered six Koreans, 趙羲淵, 禹範善, 李斗璜, 李軫鎬, 李範来, 権濚鎮, to be executed as the criminals of the incident.

5. A Korean Prince 純宗 who was at the site of the incident said that it was a Korean army officer, 禹範善, who actually killed the Queen Min.

6. 禹範善 also confessed that it was him who actually killed the Queen Min.

7. As 禹範善 ran away, King Gojong sent an assassin and killed him.

However, later, King Gojong, under the protection of Russia, started claiming that it was the Japanese who plotted the incident. Russia at the time was trying to get rid of the Japanese influence in the Korean Peninsula to gain and secure unfrozen ports for their expansion into the Pacific.

vi) CLAIM: Japan colonized Korea illegally by force

Japan did NOT invade Korea. Korea was so poor, miserable and hopeless that they asked Japan to annex and modernize.

The country had poor soil, unproductive population and no resources that there was no appeal for its neighboring countries to colonize apart from national security, geopolitical or transportational reasons. If fact, in every single year during the annexation, Japan spent so much money on the Peninsula except in the year of the Great Depression. It was a huge burden of net negative cash flows.

Plus, for the annexation, there was no war, and it was a sign deal, which the internationally community accepted.

Prior to this, Korea’s biggest political party at the time, Iljinhoe (一進会 or 일진회), whose official number of its members totaled 800,000 to one million, said that Korea could not develop capitalism on its own, and issued a proclamation on Dec. 4, 1909 demanding a merger with the Japanese Empire.

(Statement by 一進会, demanding Korea’s merger with Japan)

Koreans changed their minds AFTER the War, and tried to illegalize the deal. However, their claims have been declined in an international academic conference held in Harvard University in December 2008.

Professor J. Crawford of Cambridge University who specializes in the International Law stated at the conference that in view of the international order of the time, it was not rare for a neighboring country to annex a nation that could not sustain by itself, and that the Japanese annexation of Korea was not illegal.

It was also revealed at the conference that the Korean Emperor, Gojong, was actually in favor of becoming a protectorate of Japan in 1905 and dismissed opposing opinions expressed by some ministers, according to his diary and other Korean official documents such as 日省録 and 承政院日記.

It was also confirmed that even though the agreement for the annexation was not signed by the Korean Emperor, it was signed by Korea's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and this suffices the requirements of the International Law.

Historically, since the time of Yuan Dynasty in China, Korea was a tributary state of China for almost one thousand years. However, as the Qing Dynasty got weaker, Russia was attempting to get control over them to have access to Korea’s unfreezing ports for their expansion into the Pacific Ocean.

Korea to Japan is just like Cuba to the US geologically, a knife pointing to its neck. Thus, in order to stabilize the security of the region, Japan made Korea independent after the first Sino-Japan War with the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and supported the country. Incidentally, this is when the Korea’s King became an Emperor, since being a king in Asia meant that his country is a tributary state of China.

However, having been a dependency of China for such a long time, Korea could not stand up by themselves, leading into a hopeless state where they had to be annexed to get modernized.

If you want to know how Koreans used to live BEFORE the annexation, you can read books written by westerners who visited there. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by an English travelor, Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops.

A US historian, Helen Mears says in her book “Mirror for Americans: Japan” that as far as I can see from these official records, I don’t see why Japan has to be accused of enslaving Korea. If this was enslaving, the Britain would be guilty of accomplice and the US be guilty of accessory. All that Japan did to Korea was legally conducted as an ally of the UK. They were in accordance with the international rules and the highest code of conducts of that time. Not only that, these rules and codes were not set up by the Japanese, but were set up by the West, especially the British.

vii) CLAIM: Japan despoiled Korea

Koreans claim that Japan deprive seven things (Seven Deprivation) from Korea during the annexation. But they are all lies.

1) Royal Family

It was Koreans themselves who terminated their royal family.

After the annexation, Korean royal family was also merged with the Japanese imperial family. But they were protected with great care. For instance, every year, 1.8 million yen was budgeted for the royal family, an equivalent to about 20 billion yen, or about 170 million dollars, far more than the Japanese houses of Imperial prince.

After the War, the Korean prince, Yi Un (李垠), tried to go back to Korea. But it was the South Korea’s president, Syngman Rhee (李承晩), who refused his return and chose republicanism.

(Yi Un, 李垠)

2) Sovereignty

Korea before the annexation was a tributary state of the Qing (China). In fact, since the time of Yuan Dynasty (China), Korea had been a tributary state of China for almost one thousand years. It was Japan that gave Korea its independence after the first Sino-Japan War by the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

Helen Mears who wrote “Mirror of America: Japan” says in her book that Japan annexed Korea because Korea’s Emperor asked for it. It was not done by declaration but by a proper treaty.

3) Land

Korea claims that Japan took over 40% of their total farm land. However, this is another big lie.

During the era of the Joseon Dynasty, the concept of property rights was very vague so that conflicts over land ownership was more than a commonplace.

Thus, Governer-General of Korea spent eight years in investigating the entire land using the modern measurement methods to clear the ownership for fair tax collection and easy transactions, in order to improve their use and productivity. The investigation revealed that 45% of the farm land were secretly owned by the ruling class of Yangban.

The land the Governer-General of Korea had was 3%. But this was carried on from the Joseon Dynasty. The total land that Japanese corporation and individual had was 6%, and they were all purchased by normal transactions.

There is no way Japan took over 45% of their land.

4) Hangul

Koreans also lie that Japan took away their writing system, Hangul. Hangul was first invented by a Joseon King Sejon in the 15th century, but nobody used it since it was created for peasants. All Yangbans and educated used Chinese characters. That is why there is NO document written in Hangul before the Japanese annexation.

It was a Japanese, Yukichi Fukuzawa, who refound and promoted Hangul.

Governer-General of Korea built 5,500 schools (there were only 100 before), adopted Hangul in their text books, and started teaching it. This was when Hangul was established in Korea for the first time in their history. The first newspaper in Hangul was also printed by Japanese.

(Primary school textbook to teach Hangul during annexation period)

5) Names

In 1939, Governer-General of Korea changed the Family Registration Law, and allowed Koreans to have Japanese family names. This was in response to Koreans strong demand so they do not get discriminated by Chinese in Manchuria. They also demanded to change their first names to Japanese names so their origins are not revealed. The Governor issued a notice three times to ban forcing change of names.

If anything, the Japanese Government did NOT want Koreans to use Japanese names as was first banned. There is NO way or need for the Japanese to change Korean names to Japanese names.

6) Lives

Korea claimes Japan massacred hundreds of thousands of Koreans during the 50 year war since Japan forced annexation. However, the truth is that there was NO war; their biggest political party demanded it with its member’s signatures; the annexation was a singed deal, not even by a declaration; and was an internationally accepted one.

There was no nationwide protest against the annexation except for one case of “March 1st Movement” in which some 3900 Koreans were found guilty. Even though there were eight Japanese killed, there was NO death sentence. And for this fairness of the court, the main leaders of the movement like 崔麟, 李光洙, 崔南善, 朴煕道 became big fans of Japan, and as a result, they became opinion leaders supporting Japan.

The annexation increased Korea’s agricultural productivity dramatically by introduction of modern agricultural methods. From 1910 to 1930, the production of rice double in volume, and from 1933 to 1938 alone, the income of Korean farmers also doubled.

During the Joseon Dynasty, every so often epidemics prevailed because of their unhygienic environment, killing more than a hundred thousand people. But because Japan introduced modern medicine to Korea during the annexation, the average life expectancy increased sharply from 25 years old to 45, and the population also increased dramatically from 7.3 million to 25.5 million.

The truth is that Japan saved Korean's lives, not killed their lives.

7) Resources

Korea claims that Japan stole their natural resources such as gold, silver, tungsten, coals, etc., but the realty is that the Korean Peninsula has very small amount of resources. All the mining companies were making losses and they had to import resources from South East Asia.

Instead of depriving resources, Japan had to spend so much money for the development of one of the poorest country in Asia. From construction of railways, power plants, dams, schools, hospitals, etc., Japan paid for just about all of Korea’s modernization expenses. It spent over two billion yen. If we assume one yen in those days to be about 30,000 yen today, the amount Japan spent on Korea amounts to 60 trillion yen, or roughly 520 billion dollars.

A US historian, Helen Mears says in her book “Mirror for Americans: Japan” that as far as I can see from these official records, I don’t see why Japan has to be accused of enslaving Korea. If this was enslaving, the Britain would be guilty of accomplice and the US be guilty of accessory. All that Japan did to Korea was legally conducted as an ally of the UK. They were in accordance with the international rules and the highest code of conducts of that time. Not only that, these rules and codes were not set up by the Japanese, but were set up by the West, especially the British.

viii) CLAIM: Japan forced sex slaves to Korean girls during the War

Though the majority of the comfort women were Japanese prostitutes recruited by Japanese dealers, there were some Korean comfort women. They were also highly paid prostitutes but were recruited by KOREAN dealers.

Seiji Yoshida is a Japanese communist who first wrote a book in 1980s on “comfort women,” revealing his experience of kidnapping girls in Korea. However, he later admitted before he died that it was all fabrication, and that he wrote the book as “a novel.” The Asahi Newspaper who led the distribution of this hoax throughout the world withdrew the articles on Japanese soldiers kidnapping Korean girls and then apologized AFTER 30 odd years.

But it was too late. Already the UN’s "Coomaraswamy Report” was out with its central contents BASED ON the Yoshida’s book, which he himself admitted was "a novel," accusing most horrendous rapes, kidnapping, torturing and killing committed by Japanese soldiers.

But there is really NO primary source evidence whatsoever to indicate that there was coercion except for the dodgy statements made by some comfort women who only appears in places where no questions are allowed.

The reason for no questions is that in the past they made stupid mistakes that exposed their lies like they were kidnapped by Jeep (Jeep was used by US during Korean War and Japan does not have a single Jeep); the soldier opened his fastener (Japanese was using buttons); and some even mentioned base where only American bases were located during the Korean War.

(Newspaper article for arresting Korean kidnapper of girls)

(Ads for recruiting comfort women)

(Pay slip of a comfort woman)

(Above: Korea’s comfort women house for US soldiers during the Korean War)

(Below: Comfort women house authorized and signed by President Park Chung-hee)

Instead, there are many evidences to show that they were nothing but prostitutes such as recruitment ads, comfort women’s bank account recordings, diaries, police records and news articles of arresting bad KOREAN dealers who kidnapped girls, a US official report on a station in Burma by the United States Office of War Information that concluded that “A ‘comfort girl’ is nothing more than a prostitute or ‘professional camp follower.’"

(US’s report concluding that the Korean comfort women were nothing but “camp followers”)

The biggest investigation conducted by a Korean professor at Seoul Uni, Prof. An, for which both Korean and Japanese government cooperated and in which he interviewed all the comfort women who claimed they were coerced, concluded that they are either making mistake or deliberately lying and that there is NO primary source evidence that indicate there was coercion in Korea or Japan. He also said that the objective of the Korean political group behind all this move is not the truth or justice, but it is to bash Japan. This is an investigation conducted by Koreans using Korean money.

Also, subsequently, US government conducted a huge investigation in its official archive during and after the war upon request from South Korean and China. But there found NO evidence whatsoever, and all they found were evidences to indicate that they were professional prostitutes.

So there is absolutely no nothing in Korea, Japan or US.

If you try to find an evidence, you will realize that there are many Korean who say there are plenty of evidences. But when you ask them to show or point to one, nobody can. Not only that, nobody knows what it is, where it is, or even who saw it.

This is what Koreans talk about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003 (printed version), "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.

Sex surrounding wars:

Sex issues of soldiers have been big issues of all times and places. From the time of the Crusaders, they had a similar system like the Japanese “comfort women” of the WWII. Or even in Kosovo, they had brothels for soldiers.

Basically, armies around the world have had three types of approaches on this: 1) do nothing, 2) procure prostitutes at the sites, 3) provide and bring your own prostitutes, or any combination of the three.

1) is the Soviet’s approach, in which rapes are most likely to happen as witnessed in Germany and Manchuria when they invaded towards the end of WWII. 2) is the US approach, as happened after the WWII when they occupied Japan and made the Japanese Government provide three types of brothels for officers, white soldiers and black soldiers using the Japanese tax payer money. 3) is the Japanese approach, where the Army provides “recreation centers” to private business owners to run their gambling house, movie theaters or brothels, somewhat similar to today’s big offices lenting spaces for shops like Starbucks.

Incidentally, Korea themselves had the same system as Japan did during the Vietnam War. In addition, they had a similar system run DIRECTLY by the South Korean government during the Korean War for US soldiers for earning the US dollars. The operation was signed by the former President Park Geun-hye’s father, former President Park Chung-hee.

Kidnapping by Japanese Soldiers:

All Japanese comfort women were recruited by Japanese dealers while all Korean comfort women were recruited by Korean dealers. But there was one case in which Japanese soldiers were involved in forcing a woman to work as a prostitute in Indonesia. However, as this case was reported, the Japanese Army immediately freed the woman, closed the brothel and punished the soldiers.

If a police officer of the NY Police committed a rape, and as soon as the Police found it by itself and brought him to justice, would you say that the NY Police committed a crime? Or, would you say that it was an individual crime, and the order is maintained?

Human Trafficking in Korean Society:

Prostitution in Korea was only banned in 2004, but still there was huge protests against the banning.

Since then, Koreans became the biggest exporter of prostitutes in the world, and according to a Korean politician, Kim Ogi, there are 100,000 Korean prostitutes in the world today: some 30,000 in the US, and 50,000 in Japan, in both cases, the highest by the country. Also, according to the LA Police statistics, out of 70 to 80 prostitutes arrested every month in LA, 90% are Korean, while Seattle Times reported on July 26, 2017 that Korean dealers are exploiting girls in great poverty, forcing them to service 5 to 10 men a day. Some girls arrested said that they were not paid because they were working for their parent’s debts. So, in the 21st century, the Koreans are still doing what they were doing during the WWII, while blaming the Japanese for what they did for themselves.

The reason for this developed human trafficking system in Korea is that since the time of the Qing Dynasty in China, Korea had to send 3,000 girls every year, according some researchers.

What the Japanese Government Admitted and Apologized For:

There is no question or denying that the Imperial Japanese Army had a comfort women system in which they rent spaces where privately owned brothels were run, and that Japanese prostitutes recruited by Japanese dealers and Korean prostitutes recruited by Korean dealers were working for substantial money.

However, as revealed in cases in the US in which Korean prostitutes were working without payments for their parent’s debt, there could well have been some cases where girls were forced to work for their parent’s debt.

If a Chinese company was found to commit child abuses in its factory that sells parts to Apple, would Apple be DIRECTLY responsible for the child abuse?

Sure, they would apologize for their lack of CONTROL or GOVERNANCE, and take necessary steps to avoid the same or similar thing to happen again.

1) What Japanese Government admitted

It admitted that they had the comfort women system.

They could have been human trafficking by dealers.

2) What Japanese Government denies

Systematic coercion by the Imperial Japanese Army such as kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing.

3) What Japanese Government did for those who claim coerced:

Made formal apology for the misery that the Japanese system caused as a result.

Offered compensation to the former comfort women around the world and to the South Korean Government.

Led the private compensations to the former Korean comfort women in the form of Japanese private funds.

Why Japanese Are Suspicious:

There are many reasons to believe that the whole thing is hoax.

1) The issue arose all of sudden out of blue in 1980s by a communist, Seiji Yoshida, who later admitted before he died that his book was a novel.

2) Asahi Newspaper who spreaded the issue withdrew articles for coercion, after 30 odd years.

3) There is NO primary source evidence in Korea, Japan or US.

4) The comfort women only appears in places where no questions are allowed after making obvious mistakes.

5) There are many evidences to suggest they were highly paid professional prostitutes.

6) Prof. An of Seoul Uni. said that the political party behind is doing this to bash Japan. He also said that the comfort women were either making mistakes or deliberately lying.

7) Korea’s developed human trafficking as revealed in newspaper during the annexation and in the 21st century.

8) Every time the issue is solved finally, the South Korean Government keeps on moving the Goal Post and start all over again, as is happening right now after "the final and irreversible” agreement was signed by the both governments as led by the former President Obama.

9) Hiding behind all this issue is China which is funding the whole movements in countries of US allies to break up the tie for their expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

10) South Korea has done the same thing during the Vietnam War and Korean War. Especially for the Vietnam War, South Korea has a big issue of Lai Dai Han. But they always avoid to talk about them.

The sex issue during wars is a big human rights issue and the Japanese comfort women issue should be talked about in that context as ONE of the cases that are happening right at THIS MOMENT. Without that, this issue would never be solved properly.

However, they ALWAYS talk about the Japanese case ONLY, and stops at that. This alone makes the Japanese think that there are other political agenda behind all this.

“The Sex History of the World War” by Magnus Hirschfeld

ix) CLAIM: Japan illegally forced labor during the War

There were three types of employments during the War: ordinary employments, government recruitment and drafts. Drafting in the Korean Peninsula was conducted only the LAST year of the War for seven months because working in Japanese companies were so popular with high salaries. But Koreans claims that drafts were illegal forced labor.

However, labor by drafting is not against International Law and ANY country during the War had the system.

In addition, the Koreans drafted were:

1) drafted under the same condition as Japanese

2) employed under the same conditions as Japanese and Korean workers

3) well paid (same as Japanese)

4) entitled to social benefits (same as Japanese)

There is no exact figure for the number of Koreans drafted during the seven months. But to show how popular it was for Koreans to work in Japan, there were over 300,000 Koreans working in Japan at free will in the year of 1930. Most of them were working as labors in factories and mines but their pays were still much higher than in the Korean Peninsula, since Korea was one of the poorest country in the world before the Japan’s annexation.

Or, to illustrate how popular it was for Koreans to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army, the following are number of Korean applicants vs recruiting goals.

In fact, it was so popular to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army that many Koreas wrote their application form with their blood as ink. One such applican was the father of the previous President, Park Geun-hye, a former President, Park Chung-hee, who started serving since 1939.

Incidentally, Koreans were also treated the same way in the Imperial Japanese Army, and the highest rank that Korean achieved was lieutenant general by Hong Sa Ik.

There is NO western country that treated their colonized countries in the same way.

After the War, Japan was willing to pay pensions to employees and proposed it to South Korea. However, it was the then President Park Chung-hee who asked Japan to pay as a lump sum to the South Korean Government so they distribute themselves. This is partly because Japanese pension was subsutantially larger than Korean equivalents.

In any case, Japan did what the South Korean Government wanted INCLUDING the amount to be paid to previous workers in North Korea because South Korean Government insisted that they are the proper government of Korea.

This was the basis of Japan‐Republic of Korea Basic Relations Treaty under which all subsequent Japan-Korea economic relationship was developed after the War. But now, they flipped the table, and started saying Japan should pay again.

By International Law or any country’s law, this is outrageous. However, Korean government never tries to settle these issues in the International Court as they know they have NO chance of winning.

Instead, they spread lies and propaganda, and try to settle POLITICALLY as in the case of “comfort women.”

Many Japanese think of these Korean’s attitude as shameless and dishonest, and hate Koreans for that.

(5) Modern History

x) LIE: Korea modernized by themselves (Japan interfered)

Before annexation

Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world: there was no wealth accumulated in the country; it had no resources; no technology; no trust in the society, and unproductive population.

No wealth and no resources are self explanatory.

No trust in the society and unproductive population:

Since 90% of Koreans did not trust the remaining 10% of Korea’s ruling class, Yangban, there was no incentive to work in the country. Isabella Bird, who visited Korea before the annexation and wrote “Korea and her Neighbors” says that there TWO classes in Korean society, one that is allowed to steal, and the other that gets stolen but cannot complain. She says, because of this, nobody is willing to work in Korea as anything people earn would be stolen freely by Yangbans.

No technology:

This has a lot to do with Korean’s religion and tradition.

Joseon Dynasty adopted the Cheng-Zhu school (朱子学) of Confucianism. But this school looks down upon and dicourages ANY labor work. This is why their ruling class, Yangban (両班), never worked. All hand works were discouraged as works of the lowest class, and thus all technology was lost. Koreans could not even make a wooden wheel for carriages or water wheels during this period, and even today there is no artifacts that you see in Japan.

During annexation

It was Japan that made Korea’s school system, taught organizing know-how of a country, built the infrastructure, invested money, provide and taught the modern technology, and modernize the whole country.

Colonization is for depriving. But this annexation was for modernizing Korea, and it was such a huge cost for Japan. During the 35 years of annexation, Japan invested a total of about two billion dollars, today’s equivalent of about 600 billion dollars!!

Koreans say that Japan was taking away gold, silver, lead, coal, etc., but the truth is that Korea does not have much natural reasources and all the mining companies were making losses.

After the War

Japan did not colonize Korea. Japan annexed Korea as Korea asked, and then modernized the country.

There is no country that paid compensation even for colonization. And when colonization is terminated, all private assets were treated differently by International Law. For instance, when Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch, Dutch companies demanded compensations for their private assets in Indonesia. But Indonesian Government could not pay, so Japan paid instead via ODA.

In Korea’s case, Korea demanded all the assets free of charge and asked Japan via USA. This was such a ridiculous demand by international standard, but Japan still gave them everything totally free, electric power plants, rail ways, all sorts of factories, dams, ports, bridges, etc., all build by Japan using Japanese money and technology.

This became the basis of thier further economic development and modernization.

Plus, Japan made a huge donation in 1965 totaling 800 million dollars for Korea’s economic growth out of goodwill. This amount is over twice as much as Korea’s national budget.

On top of this, Japan taught all technologies and know-hows for thier industries from scratch. This is why today, Korea’s industrial structure is almost identical to Japanese one.

So, though Koreans were so ashamed about this and teach the opposite, the truth is that the capital, infrastructure, education, organization know-hows, technologies, etc., which were required for modernization of Korea was ALL provided by Japan.

Japan paid just about ALL the costs for Korea’s modernization.

xi) CLAIM: Japanese assaulted Koreans after Great Kanto Earthquake

Koreans are spreading lies that Japanese assaulted and in some cases killed Koreans after the Great Kanto Earthquake for racism.

But it was the quite the opposite. As newspapers of the days reported, some Koreans plundered, set fire, assaulted or raped that many Japanese formed vigilante groups and protected themselves.

(Examples of newspapers reporting crimes of Koreans after the Earthquake)

STEALING OF TECHNOLOGIES AND CULTURES

Japanese hate Koreans for stealing, copying and plagiarizing just about everything Japanese.

(1) Technologies

Manufacturing

Korea has very little know-how in basic science research. This is why it has no famous scientist nor recipient of any internationally aclaimed award such as Nobel Prize.

Flash memories, semiconductors, LCD, organic EL, rolled steel products, grain‐oriented electrical steel sheet, ship-building technologies, etc. What support today’s Korea’s economy were all stolen from Japan by hiring Japanese engineers. There is NO Korean contribution to the basic science behind these technologies, and they exploited cheap Won.

This is why today’s South Korea’s industrial structure is similar to Japanese one.

Agriculture

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries estimates that Japan’s annual loss of income by Korea’s stealing is about 250 million dollars.

For instance, Japanese sweet strawberry was stolen and mixed with Korean’s, and the product is sold overseas as Korean strawberry.

Or, in 2017, incubation technologies of tuna was stolen. A Korean company approached the Japanese organization with the world’s first and only original incubation technology offering corporation. But after they showed its technology, the Korean company announced they have acquired the original incubation technology, which is the same as the Japanese one.

This kind of dishonesty and shameless conduct is most hated by the Japanese.

(2) “Traditional” Cultures

Martial Arts

Korea’s all martial arts (except for archery) today started AFTER 1960s by copying Japanese martial arts. But they keep on stealing the origin in the following way:

1. Learn Japanese martial arts

2. Change the techniques a little

3. Change the name

4. Fabricate its history to steal the origin

Korean Martial Arts:

Korea did not have swords like Japanese Katana, nor did they have sword martial arts. Japanese steel making process is different to Korean’s, and today Korean cannot even make knife sharp enough to cut sashimi.

However, Koreans are spreading a lie that it was Korean that taught how to make katana.

Korean Swords:

Japanese swords are nothing like Korean ones. To begin with, Koreans did NOT have martial arts other than their archery.

Korean Sword Martial Arts:

1) Wubei Zhi (武備志)

Wubei Zhi is a Chinese strategy book during the Ming Dynasty (1368 -1644), which was compiled by a Chinese, Mao Yuanyi, in 1621. The reason for the compilation arose from the failure in the Imjin War (1592 -1597) in which the Chinese soldiers were unable to fight equally against the Japanese samurai with their swords.

At the beginning of the book, the author, Mao Yuanyi, wrote “Our swords are shorter and weaker than the Japanese ones,” and that “our Tang Dynasty’s sword martial art were lost in China, but one dilettante found it is remaining in the Korea as Joseon Saebeop."

2) Muyedobotongji (武芸図譜通志, 무예도보통지)

Muyedobotongji is the only Korean strategy book, and it was only written as recently as at the end of 18th century in Joseon. But despite what Wubei Zhi says, the book says at the beginning “the ONLY martial art in Korea is archery (止弓矢一技),” and by referring to the Imjin War like Wubei Zhi, it was compiled with an aim of CREATING a NEW sword martial art by combining Chinese and Japanese sword martial arts. This is the true character of “本国剣,” or what Koreans call “traditional Korean sword art."

So, even if the Korean sword art did exist as Koreans claim, it was Chinese sword martial art of the Tang Dynasty, and Korea's “traditional” sword art, 本国剣, is a combination of Chinese and Japanese sword martial arts.

“Common soldiers hardly ever wear swords. Only officers and mandarins of higher rank are armed with such of JAPANESE make, but they are all OLD and RUSTY. It is more likely that these also were BROUGHT into the country by the JAPANESE, and were left behind on their withdrawal."

— “A Forbidden Land” by Ernst Oppet (1832 - 1903)

Having said that, Koreans did have shorter swords that they wore under an armpit, back to front and hung on a swivel.

Korean swords are so different to the Japanese ones: they are much shorter; not curved; single ridged; using much lower quality iron; has no hamon or no habaki; and most importantly the hard steel, hagane, is not sandwiched giving it a much lower cutting qualities in battles.

Korean swords were used only supplementally to their bows and arrows unlike Japanese katana. They hold no spiritual values to anyone and were poorly made with much lower cutting and artistic qualities.

In addition, despite the fact that Koreans want to claim it was the Koreans who taught Japanese how to make iron and swords, the Japanese traditional steel making process, Tatara, is not related to Korean one, and it is more related to ones in the Central or West Asia. The fact is that even today, Koreans cannot produce kitchen knives good and sharp enough to cut raw fish for sushi.

They are two different things, almost as different to the Western swords.

Note that Koreans swords you see on TV and in their martial arts today are NOT their traditional ones, as all Korean martial arts other than their archery started AFTER 1960s by modifying Japanese martial arts. That is why you see some Korean swords similar to the Japanese katana.

**Samurai**

Korea claims that samrai originated in Korea and their “hwarang” were worriers like samurai.

But,

“Corea has NO samurai. She lacks what Japan always had - a cultured body of men, the soldier and scholar in one, who held to a high ideal of loyalty, patriotism, and sacrifice for country.”

— “Corea the Hermit Nation” by William Grifiss (1843-1928)

Hwarang:

Hwarang has nothing to do with martial arts.

According to Korea’s first official history book, Samguk Sagi, which was written in 12 century, "they selected beautiful boys, put on make ups and gorgeous dresses, and call them Hwarang (花郎, litereally meaning 'Flower Boys'). Many boys gathered to become a hwarang, and they discussed, wrote poems and traveled throughout the country. Some boys from the Hwarang were appointed to serve in the Court, from whom few became good generals and worriors.” (source: 三国史記　新羅本紀　真興王三十七年)

In other words, Hwarang was a group of high rank male prostitutes or aristocrats wearing female dresses.

Sakura, Tea Ceremonies, Origami, Sake, Shinto, Kabuki, Haiku, Japanese Architectures, Japanese Gardens, Koi Carps, Wagyu Beef, Ninja ……

Korea claim Gogreyo was Korean even though they were a different ethnic group, Jurchen (Manchurian), that happened to conquered the northern part of Korea. Korean say that Gogreyo’s history and cultures are Korean’s.

This is like Poland claiming Germany’s history and cultures as their own AFTER Germany’s retreat.

Likewise, during and after the War, Koreans copied just about everything Japanese; altered the contents a little; changed their names; and fabricated their history to steal the origins. One example of this is TaeKwonDo that is copied from Karate. They stoled its origin by fabricating the history of Tekkyon, which has nothing to do with martial arts, to be the origin of TaeKwonDo.

There is no other country that does this. For instance, even though Japanese “Ramen” was originally from China, NO Japanese feel ashamed about it; NO Japanese is trying to hide this fact; and NO Japanese is trying fabricate its history to steal the origin.

However, Korea’s academics, industry, government, and public are doing this systematically, lead by their government body, the National Branding Commission for the purpose of gaining “soft power” especially after President Lee Myung-bak’s administration.

Many Japanese feel that stealing other country’s cultures is a most disrespectful things, much much worse than cultural appropriation, and are very angry with Koreans for that.

(3) Subcultures (anime, K-dramas, K-pops, fashions, face lift)

Most of Korean anime are blatant copies of Japanese anime and manga. Ideas of many stories of K-dramas are also taken from Japanese drama, manga and anime. Their know-hows of films were stolen from Koreans working in Japan disguised as Japanese.

Techniques in Korean fashions and K-pop stars are all learned from Japan. Even today, their fashion designers, hair dressers and makeup artists all go to Japan to learn techniques but pretend their own.

Even the measurements of Korea’s famous face lifts are using those of Japanese models, and the operations are done using Japanese techniques. Both were given by a Japanese famous cosmetic surgery clinic called “Takasu Clinic.”

20 years ago, it was easy to tell the difference between Koreans and Japanese just by looking at their faces. But because today many Korean have face lifts with measurements of Japanese faces and they use techniques learned from Japan for their hair, makeups and fashion, it is very difficult to tell their differences.

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